As one who took his BA at Brooklyn in the post war years before "open admissions" I have long been saddened by its decline into a politicized, now second-rate institution. But, despite the transformations that fortune and political correctness have worked upon a once great college, it has managed to retain many accomplished and serious scholar-teachers.
The Johnson case can only do the college great harm by further diminishing its already mediocre reputation in the academic world. And how particularly bizarre that a highly accompl;ished young scholar should have brought his status superiors to punitive rage by opposing the mounting of a "hate Israel" session disguised as a symposium!
by milton rosenberg on December 2, 2002 at 3:27 PM